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Grand Rapids, Michigan – January 24, 2018 – A&S Signature Journeys has earned the prestigious Silver statuette in the Travvy Awards for Best Vacation Packager—Asia which was held Wednesday, January 24, 2017 at Gotham Hall in New York City. The annual Travvy Awards, known as the Academy Awards of the travel industry, recognize the highest standards of excellence in the…

Novi will continue to see communities lift their Boil Water Advisory. Novi is NOT one of those yet. We will not be able to lift our advisory until at least Sunday late afternoon. ALL OF NOVI REMAINS UNDER A BOIL WATER ADVISORY. We are calling today ‘High Five Friday’ in honor of our dedicated Department of Public Services team who have been…

Global Detroit, University of Michigan release study detailing up to $295 million in annual economic activity West Bloomfield, Michigan – Every year, refugees to Southeast Michigan contribute up to $295 million to the region’s economy and, in 2016 alone, they create up to 2, 311 new jobs. That’s according to a new study released by Global Detroit and University of…

August 31, 2017 | DETROIT – New Michigan Media (NMM), the collaborative network of the five largest ethnic and minority media publications in Michigan, has appointed Keyta Roberson as the organization’s social media and community engagement manager. This position was created through the Detroit Journalism Engagement Fund, which is funded by the Ford Foundation, James S. and John L. Knight…

Washington, DC – In advance of this year’s municipal and statewide elections, 2,000 groups across the country will mobilize to celebrate National Voter Registration Day on September 26, 2017. The National Voter Registration Day Steering Committee is calling on libraries, universities, community organizations, and businesses to partner in this effort by hosting a local registration drive. “These local elections have…

WHAT: Leaders from national Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations will gather in support of immigrants to urge President Trump to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The president has threatened to end the program, which would put approximately 800,000 young people at risk of losing their ability to get an education, work and contribute to their…

Maria Garcia Juarez wandered around the international arrivals area at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Friday, frantically looking for a government official who held a sheet of paper with her fate written on it. As she scurried from one Delta Air Lines security employee to the next, asking if anyone had seen agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Juarez looked like…

When you tell us about a scam, it helps us investigate scammers. But it also helps us warn other people about the scam – so they can avoid it. Our partners at US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told us about a new twist on a common phone scam: scammers are calling immigrants in the US – but this time,…

BEIJING — One of the key messages that came out of President Donald Trump’s meeting with U.S. lawmakers on North Korea was a renewed emphasis on the need to use sanctions and diplomacy to try and pressure Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. And while the outlook for the resumption of talks remains bleak at best, analysts say, China’s support…

On December 28th, 2015, the South Korean and Japanese governments announced a “final and irreversible resolution” of the issue of former ‘Comfort Women,’ a euphemism for survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery roughly during the Second World War. An estimated 200,000-400,000 women – many in their teens – were forced, abducted, and coerced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial…